Taxodium distichum (Linnaeus, 1753) - bald cypress (Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation's Native Plant Nursery, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA)
Plants are multicellular, photosynthesizing eucaryotes. Most species occupy terrestrial environments, but they also occur in freshwater and saltwater aquatic environments. The oldest known land plants in the fossil record are Ordovician to Silurian. Land plant body fossils are known in Silurian sedimentary rocks - they are small and simple plants (e.g., Cooksonia). Fossil root traces in paleosol horizons are known in the Ordovician. During the Devonian, the first trees and forests appeared. Earth's initial forestation event occurred during the Middle to Late Paleozoic. Earth's continents have been partly to mostly covered with forests ever since the Late Devonian. Occasional mass extinction events temporarily removed much of Earth's plant ecosystems - this occurred at the Permian-Triassic boundary (251 million years ago) and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (65 million years ago).
The most conspicuous group of living plants is the angiosperms, the flowering plants. They first unambiguously appeared in the fossil record during the Cretaceous. They quickly dominated Earth's terrestrial ecosystems, and have dominated ever since. This domination was due to the evolutionary success of flowers, which are structures that greatly aid angiosperm reproduction.
The bald cypress is not an angiosperm - it is a gymnosperm, but it is not an evergreen. Unusual for a conifer, the bald cypress sheds its foliage in the fall in temperate climates.
Classification: Plantae, Pinophyta, Pinopsida, Pinales, Cupressaceae / Taxodiaceae
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See info. at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxodium_distichum
Tags: tree trees Taxodium distichum bald cypress conifer conifers
Taxodium ascendens Brongniart, 1833 - pond cypress (Dawes Arboretum collection, Heath, Ohio, USA)
This tree is also known as Taxodium distichum imbricarium.
Pond cypresses are gymnosperms, but not evergreens. Unusual for a conifer, the pond cypress sheds its foliage in the fall in temperate climates. They are native to parts of southeastern America.
Classification: Plantae, Pinophyta, Pinopsida, Pinales, Cupressaceae / Taxodiaceae
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See info. at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxodium
and
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxodium_ascendens
Tags: Taxodium ascendens pond cypress cypresses tree trees distichum imbricarium gymnosperm gymnosperms conifer conifers deciduous
Taxodium distichum (Linnaeus, 1753) - bald cypress (Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation's Native Plant Nursery, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA)
Plants are multicellular, photosynthesizing eucaryotes. Most species occupy terrestrial environments, but they also occur in freshwater and saltwater aquatic environments. The oldest known land plants in the fossil record are Ordovician to Silurian. Land plant body fossils are known in Silurian sedimentary rocks - they are small and simple plants (e.g., Cooksonia). Fossil root traces in paleosol horizons are known in the Ordovician. During the Devonian, the first trees and forests appeared. Earth's initial forestation event occurred during the Middle to Late Paleozoic. Earth's continents have been partly to mostly covered with forests ever since the Late Devonian. Occasional mass extinction events temporarily removed much of Earth's plant ecosystems - this occurred at the Permian-Triassic boundary (251 million years ago) and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (65 million years ago).
The most conspicuous group of living plants is the angiosperms, the flowering plants. They first unambiguously appeared in the fossil record during the Cretaceous. They quickly dominated Earth's terrestrial ecosystems, and have dominated ever since. This domination was due to the evolutionary success of flowers, which are structures that greatly aid angiosperm reproduction.
The bald cypress is not an angiosperm - it is a gymnosperm, but it is not an evergreen. Unusual for a conifer, the bald cypress sheds its foliage in the fall in temperate climates.
Classification: Plantae, Pinophyta, Pinopsida, Pinales, Cupressaceae / Taxodiaceae
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See info. at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxodium_distichum
Tags: tree trees Taxodium distichum bald cypress conifer conifers
Taxodium ascendens Brongniart, 1833 - pond cypress (Dawes Arboretum collection, Heath, Ohio, USA)
This tree is also known as Taxodium distichum imbricarium.
Pond cypresses are gymnosperms, but not evergreens. Unusual for a conifer, the pond cypress sheds its foliage in the fall in temperate climates. They are native to parts of southeastern America.
Classification: Plantae, Pinophyta, Pinopsida, Pinales, Cupressaceae / Taxodiaceae
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See info. at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxodium
and
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxodium_ascendens
Tags: Taxodium ascendens pond cypress cypresses tree trees distichum imbricarium gymnosperm gymnosperms conifer conifers deciduous leaves cones
Taxodium ascendens Brongniart, 1833 - pond cypress (Dawes Arboretum collection, Heath, Ohio, USA)
This tree is also known as Taxodium distichum imbricarium.
Pond cypresses are gymnosperms, but not evergreens. Unusual for a conifer, the pond cypress sheds its foliage in the fall in temperate climates. They are native to parts of southeastern America.
Classification: Plantae, Pinophyta, Pinopsida, Pinales, Cupressaceae / Taxodiaceae
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See info. at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxodium
and
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxodium_ascendens
Tags: Taxodium ascendens pond cypress cypresses tree trees distichum imbricarium gymnosperm gymnosperms conifer conifers deciduous